Upcoming events.
Utah Authors Day Signing at Legendarium
Join authors Alex Jay Lore, Bryan Young, and Sofiya Pasternack and celebrate Utah Authors Day with a signing, reading, and bookish discussions at the Legendarium Bookstore in downtown Salt Lake City.
Accessibility in Science Fiction: Imagining New Tools for Disabled Folks (Storycrafting Sessions)
A panel discussing what the future could look like for disabled folks & how we can represent that future in our stories.
Building Your Author Online Platform: Websites, Social Media, Graphics, oh My!
Writing is hard enough but how do you deal with the marketing aspects of being an author? When should you start your web presence and what should you include? This presentation provides 10 steps to help you build your online author platform: from figuring out your brand, to picking social media platforms, and setting up your author website: this presentation provides a starter kit for online author platforms, regardless where you are on your writing journey.
This presentation will be via Zoom. Join the Zoom Meeting here.
LGBTQ+ Heroes in SCi-Fi and Fantasy—An AuTHOR PANEL
Join authors David R. Slayton (White Trash Warlock), Alex Harrow (Empire of Light), Craig Laurance Gidney (A Spectral Hue) and Barbara Ann Wright (The Noble and the Nightingale) for this live virtual panel featuring own voices authors of science fiction and fantasy whose protagonists are LGBTQ+. During this fun, casual event, the authors describe their writing processes, various roads to publications, diversity in the speculative genres (and literature in general) and offer advice for aspiring writers of all genres. A Q&A session to follow. Registration closes one hour before the start of the program. A valid email address is needed at registration to send a Zoom link to the program 30 minutes before scheduled start.
FREE
Iqarus Book Con: Panel A2--Down the Rabbit Hole: The Researcher's Tea Party
The tea is hot in some cups, cold in others. Chaos abounds in between steaks of order. Thousands of books and websites flutter their information filled pages at the writer. In a corner, a rabbit hurries toward a deadline. In this panel, we talk about research for writing, authenticity, and the approach to understanding unfamiliar subjects.
Guests: Damian Serbu, Dorian Graves, Alex Harrow, J.P. Jackson
Reading: Not Your Typical Fantasy
We all know what to expect from a Tolkien type fantasy. Different humanoid races, political strife, magic use, and monsters...but what about all the other types of Fantasy? Fantasy has morphed into many subgenres. So then, what is Dark Urban, Dystopian, Dreampunk, and Paranormal Fantasy. Come join us and hear some of today’s most talented authors read from their “fantasy” works that go well beyond the realm of Tolkienism.
Guests: Alex Harrow, Dorian Graves, J.P. Jackson